Chan Lowe: Romney's explosive video

We will require the fullness of time to discover whether the leaked Romney “dependent” video is going to make any difference to the election horse race, but my immediate take is that it won’t.

First, it has only enraged folks who were already supporting Obama, anyway.

Second, there are three kinds of people who are going to vote for Romney: those who basically agree with everything he said in the video (“inelegantly” phrased though it was), people who hate Obama so much for their own reasons that leaked footage of Romney could have shown him reading passages from Das Kapital and they wouldn’t care, and those who happen to be the very “dependents” Romney was disparaging, but will never hear about the video because they don’t consume Main Stream Media.

A tip of the hat to Mrs. Lowe Down, who reminded me that Romney was speaking to his big money people, and thought he was doing so in private (as a matter of fact, in a residence in Boca Raton—there’s always a local angle). This was a whip-up-the-crowd, break-out-the-checkbooks harangue, and they were lapping it up. It’s all about context.

In other words, Romney was telling his audience what they wanted to hear. We already knew that Romney always tells his audiences what they want to hear. Now, we’re faulting Gov. Flip-Flop for being consistent? Talk about putting the poor man in a double bind.